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Premier Doug Ford’s government is embarking on what it calls a transformation of Ontario’s school system that includes pushing a back-to-basics agenda and giving the education minister more power.

With every passing year, Hamilton falls further behind when it comes to building affordable housing. The city should see an increase of 350 affordable units annually to keep up with the population's needs, but has achieved only 55 a year on average over the last decade.

Aicha Smith-Belghaba, Indigenous story teller, journalist, chef and owner of Esha's Eats talks with chef Widad Mikho at Nabil's Grill on Wilson Street in Hamilton. It's the second part of a spring series featuring chef Smith-Belghaba as she talks, chef to chef, about great food in Hamilton.

The city launched the service two weeks ago on April 3, after selecting Bird Canada as the operator. Hamilton is now one of more than 10 cities in Canada with Bird Canada operations.

Hundreds of couples renewed their wedding vows together at Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King in Hamilton.

Maple syrup is currently one of the most commonly adulterated foods, which means it is likely to have been diluted, mixed or substituted with another syrup or sweetener.

The government agency that oversees Toronto's waterfront is mulling over the idea of an expanded water shuttle network that could serve the city's waterfront communities from Etobicoke to Scarborough.

The funding is the latest move the province is undertaking to help boost student performance in schools.

Around 5 p.m. on Friday an 86-year-old man driving a red Mustang veered off of Main Street and struck a pedestrian sitting on a bus stop bench.

It’s a problem that’s persisted in his downtown bachelor unit since he moved in and despite the property management company having it sprayed two dozen times in the past year.

Ontario's greenhouse gas emissions rose only slightly in 2021, following the steep drop that occurred in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new figures published Friday.

Every Saturday, volunteers at Gore Park give their time and donate food to help feed Hamiltonians experiencing food insecurity. A second initiative in the east end is also out to fill the gap on weekends for food bank users.

Mask mandates are lifting in hospitals, long-term care homes and other health-care facilities across the country, marking an end to some of the last remaining public health restrictions against COVID-19 in Canada.

Asthma may be one of the most common chronic diseases in Canada, but experts say it can be tough to diagnose — including in adults.

For her latest act, Sarah Nurse saved Canada from disaster by scoring the overtime winner in the quarterfinals against Sweden on Thursday at the women’s hockey world championship in Brampton, Ont. But heroic goals are just one of the hockey star’s many talents.

New documents reveal details about the man who died in a fire inside a McMaster-owned home in September and the days before his death.

Mary Monture with the Six Nations Community Food Bank says new food bank users include those from middle-income households with 'nine-to-five' jobs, she said. The food bank serves several hundred people per week and is run on donations.

While the balmy April weather has brightened moods across the city, it's also awoken the creepy, eight-legged arachnids that burrow under our skin to drink our blood.

Most of the latest guidance around COVID-19 vaccination recommends another booster shot this spring only for higher-risk adults. What about everyone else?

Temperatures in Hamilton reached a record high Thursday, with thermometers hitting 28 C. A meteorologist with Environment Canada says the heat isn't here to stay, but residents should still stay hydrated and wear sunscreen.

Niagara police say a 46-year-old male teacher at Governor Simcoe Secondary School has been charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation.

Court heard arguments and impact statements during a sentencing hearing Wednesday for Peter Khill, found guilty of manslaughter in the 2016 shooting death of Jon Styres.

A one-man hunger strike has ended but James Russell's fight continues to get Niagara-on-the-Lake to pay the cost to restore 19 headstones buried at a cemetery for Black settlers.

Hamilton's fire chief says the person who was in "grave to critical condition" after a fire in the lower city early Sunday morning has died.

Advocates allege in a lawsuit that a controversial Ontario long-term care law violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

A man is dead and a woman is in serious condition after a collision involving a car and a motorcycle in Niagara Falls on Wednesday.

Hamilton city council voted unanimously Wednesday to declare a state of emergency related to homelessness, opioid addiction and mental health, following several emotional comments and pleas to the province for more help.

The early bird gets the worm, the old saying goes. That's truer today due to climate change, as many birds return to Ontario too late to catch their favourite meals. Fortunately, you can help by participating in citizen science programs like eBird, iNaturalist and Project Feederwatch.

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh visited Hamilton on Wednesday to talk about the new dental care program for low-income Canadians that will expand eligibility to uninsured Canadians under 18, senior citizens and people with disabilities with an annual family income of less than $90,000 a year.

Authors of a youth-led plan to reduce Hamilton’s dependence on fossil fuels are calling on City Hall to remediate 122 abandoned oil and natural gas wells in the municipality, create incentives for building low-emission homes and increase taxes on pipelines

Pan-African restaurant Afrolicious is looking for a new location after the co-owner says they were "kicked out" of their downtown Hamilton location on James Street North last month.

Tire producers are in trouble with the Ontario agency that regulates recycling in the province, and could soon face fines of $200,000 or more.

Sabreen Abu-Zeyada's struggles after a fall at work in June 2022 are a familiar story to advocates for injured workers, who say Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board uses a policy on pre-existing conditions to deny or reduce claims.

Why did the Jefferson salamanders take a month to cross King Road in Burlington, Ont.?To get to the other side — and make babies, according to Andrea Dunn, an ecologist with Conservation Halton.

James Russell has been on a quest to restore 19 headstones buried at the Negro Burial Ground — a cemetery in Niagara-on-the-Lake that dates back almost 200 years — and have the small Ontario town foot the $59,000 bill.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after a woman fell from a highway overpass onto a city street in St. Catharines.

The 40 new adjudicators being added to Ontario’s Landlord Tenant Board (LTB) as part of a new provincial act will preside over virtual-only hearings, and not be designated to serve any particular part of the province, Tribunals Ontario says.

There's growing concern among educators that high school and elementary students might use ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, to complete their assignments. It's ringing alarm bells for some, while others have embraced introducing the technology to their classrooms.

Ontario's top court dismissed Dellen Millard's appeal of his murder conviction in the death of his father because it says the evidence is "overwhelming" that he committed the murder.

McMaster University's Marauders Cheerleaders had a rough start at the National Cheerleaders Association (NCA) Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship in Daytona, Fla., on Thursday.

Police say a man was rollerblading down the Linc Sunday morning.

Hamilton’s fire chief says a person is in 'grave to critical condition' after a fire in the lower city early Sunday morning.

It took one GO Transit scheduling change to turn Siddhartha Batra from a regular commuter to a full-time remote worker.

Port Colborne was set to start a dig Monday after, according to technical memo, remains of 9 people had been found.

A paralegal for a Hamilton senior who says she was locked out of the home she was subletting while she was at a Tim Hortons says subletters don’t have the same legal protections as renters, and that's increasingly being exploited by landlords looking for easy ways to remove renters.

Luisa Ortiz-Garza says she had no choice but to live in Canada for 13 years as an undocumented person. Now that she has Canadian permanent residency, she shares the challenges her family faced, and the need for all migrants in Canada to access basic rights.

Workers at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) have voted in favour of strike action Friday ahead of mediation talks set to take place later this month.

Here's what is open and closed in Hamilton for this year's Easter long weekend.

The city of Brantford says a section of its Rail Trail is closed and barricaded to the public after a drainage pipe separated underground near the trail.

While the act of declaring a state of emergency doesn’t result in any more money from other levels of government, it’s a way for the city to call for change, especially if other municipalities pass similar motions, says one city councillor.